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Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith; 21 June 1952) is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years.

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The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

Board, Ensure, Example, India, Journey, Necessary

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Exploit, Lazy, Making Money, Stupid, Weak

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

God, Moving, Passion, Real, Toward, Universe

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Dark, Deeds, Full, Mirrors, Past, Things

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

Life, Loved, Purpose, Use, Way

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

Book, Firsts, Planned, Prequel, Shantaram

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

Come, Damaged, Dubious, Hero, Three

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

Nut, Nuts, Remain, Shell, Shells, Should

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Simple, Men, Perfect, Fear, Call

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Fate, Hate, Man, Men, Temples

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Heart, Shantaram, Using, Weapon, Weapons

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. \

Fate, Heart, Know, Make, Took, Wall

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

Happen, Helping, Movement, Toward, Two, Universal

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

Asks, Drowning, Know, Promise, Rivers, Scorpions

The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

Destroyed, Heart, Jail, Living, Mean, Men

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Evil, Men, Run, Running, Stupid

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

Heart, Men, Rip, Trees, Wounded

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

Dense, Hate, Love You, Loving, Numb, Regret

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Cowardece, Name, Names, Surprise, Taken

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. " Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

Eye, God, Liars, Part, Proof, Real

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